Executive EHS leadership for multi-site manufacturers — without the $200K seat.
A Fractional EHS Director gives you a senior, credentialed head of EHS: strategy, multi-site standardization, environmental compliance, risk management, and a culture that closes action items — at a fraction of the cost of hiring one.
Who This Is For
- Manufacturers and industrial operators with 2+ locations and roughly 100–500 employees
- Growth-stage and PE-backed companies adding sites by acquisition faster than their programs can keep up
- Operations where safety sits with HR or plant managers — capable people, but no senior EHS leader setting direction
- Companies that have outgrown a single-site safety coordinator but can’t justify a $160K–$220K full-time director
What a Director Does That a Manager Can’t
Coordinators and managers run programs at one site. A Director builds and runs the function — across all of them.
One compliance calendar, one scorecard, one action board across every location — inherited practices replaced with a system your ops team can run.
An annual plan tied to your risk profile and capital plan — not a binder of policies, a sequence of what gets fixed and when.
Every gap scored by likelihood and severity, tied to the governing standard, and worked in priority order — effort flows to your highest-risk sites first.
A fixed monthly operating rhythm where action items get owners, dates, and evidence-verified closure. Stalled lists start moving.
EMR trajectory, Total Cost of Risk, and program ROI in P&L language — the safety story your CFO, carrier, and investors actually use.
EHS and environmental diligence on targets before close, and a 90-day integration sprint that lands new sites on the same system.
The E in EHS — Environmental Compliance, Covered
Most safety hires stop at the S. Your Director owns the environmental obligations that carry some of the largest penalties in industrial operations — kept current on one compliance calendar, per site.
Minor-source and Title V applicability, permit conditions, emissions tracking, and renewal deadlines managed per site.
Generator status determination, accumulation and labeling rules, manifests, training, and biennial/annual reporting.
Applicability review, plan development and updates, and the inspections that keep the plan more than paper.
Industrial stormwater permit coverage, SWPPP upkeep, sampling schedules, and benchmark responses.
Chemical inventory thresholds, annual Tier II submissions, and coordination with local emergency planners.
Environmental liabilities surfaced in diligence — before they’re your citations.
Safety & Health — The Foundation, Standard
Everything you’d expect from senior safety leadership is in scope: OSHA written programs built for your operation (guarding, LOTO, HazCom, PPE, PIT, hearing conservation, confined space and the rest, in risk order), OSHA 300/300A recordkeeping and recordability calls, incident investigation, training matrix and delivery, site inspections prioritized by risk, and alignment to ISO 45001 where a management-system standard fits your customers or your exit story.
The Investment
Each tier includes everything in the tiers below it — Director builds on the full Manager and Specialist scope.
A full-time hire with this capability runs $160K–$220K in salary before benefits, recruiting, ramp-up, and turnover. Run your own numbers in the cost estimator →
See where your operation stands.
It starts with a conversation and a light gap assessment — you’ll know your top risks and what fixing them takes, whether or not we work together.
